Marceline Rose Abadeer (full title: Marceline, The Vampire Queen) is one of the main characters in Adventure Time and a vampire that is over a millennium old. During Finn and Jake's first encounters with her, she requests that they leave wherever they are as the areas belong to her. Though initially an enemy to them, she quickly becomes one of Finn and Jake's closest friends.

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Background

Marceline's earliest depicted childhood memory, in "Everything Stays", is of her living in a trailer with her human mother, who recounts to her the story of how she met her father. In "Memory of a Memory", one of Marceline's memories shows her as a young girl playing near the burning ruins of a city, presumably during the . Later on in "I Remember You," a flashback shows a young Marceline being given a doll, which she eventually named Hambo, by Simon Petrikov—who would later become the Ice King—to comfort her during the war. The two traveled together through the ruins of destroyed cities for some time, a relationship which is expanded on in "Simon and Marcy"; by the events of this episode, she is apparently 7 years old, as stated by Simon. This companionship lasted until Simon, in the final stages of his permanent descent into madness, eventually left Marceline for her own safety, promising to send somebody to guard her, a memory depicted in "Everything Stays". After his departure, Simon presumably somehow managed to reunite Marceline with Hunson, as revealed in the Adventure Time: 2015 Spooktacular.

As a teenager, Marceline's relationship with her father was damaged when he ate her fries in the ruins of a diner. She later sang about this event in her "Fry Song". In "Vamps About", Marceline is shown to have spent some time after this event wandering with her pet dog Scwabl, staking vampires to protect humans and fill the void left by Simon's departure. She befriends a tribe of humans and, in an attempt to protect them, gets bitten by the Vampire King just as he is staked by her, turning her into the Vampire Queen.

Following these events, the first depicted memory of her life as a vampire is when she moved into the Tree Fort(that would later become Finn and Jake's home) with her boyfriend Ash, whom she would later dump for selling Hambo, her most prized possession, to Maja the Sky Witch.

In "Evicted", Marceline states that she has been all over the Land of Ooo, claiming to have ridden a Giant Goldfish and traveled to the Fire Kingdom. However, according to Natasha Allegri, she was actually lying and trying to show off. She has also apparently had several places of residence throughout her life, which may have been obtained in her attempts to get away from the Ice King, before eventually settling down in her current home.

Her powers as a half-demon are limited to the ability to suck souls, as she states in "Vamps About". She took advantage of this ability to obtain from the souls of staked vampires. However, her half-demon origins may nonetheless entitle her to some longevity, as supported by the fact that her alternate version in "Finn the Human", never turned into a vampire because she stayed with Simon's corpse, still lived to be over a thousand years old, albeit in an aged state. Her father did not visibly age like she did, likely due to being a full demon.

Personality

Marceline is described as a wild rocker girl. Centuries of wandering the Land of Ooo have made her a fearless daredevil. She is a lover of all things exotic and still travels across the land often. She has a mischievous personality and is rarely intimidated. Despite seeming evil at first, Marceline is a trickster at heart, and her "evil plans" often turn out to be nothing more than elaborate jokes. She is described by Finn as "a radical dame who likes to play games." She loves to play pranks on Finn and Jake. She also occasionally has violent outbursts, as shown in "It Came from the Nightosphere." Though during her line in the song, in Evicted! she stated that since she has been alive for over a thousand years she had lost her moral code.

She can also be sentimental. She was very emotionally attached to her teddy bear Hambo, which was given to her by Simon Petrikov; after Ash sold it to Maja, she was furious and broke up with him. Later, Princess Bubblegum got Hambo back in the episode Sky Witch.

Marceline seems to be very emotional. For example, in "What Was Missing," she seemed to be more "aggressive" towards Princess Bubblegum than she usually is. She is also very independent, and in early episodes would often act without concern for Finn or his friends. It is easier for Marceline to express her feelings through music, as seen with "The Fry Song" and "I'm Just Your Problem," but has trouble expressing them otherwise. She keeps a diary that she uses for inspiration for songs as seen in "Marceline's Closet." When Marceline read the lyrics to "Remember You," the song that Simon Petrikov wrote for her, she began to cry.

Near the end of "The Dark Cloud", her personality changed slightly. Marceline had learned how to be more mature which is proved by her saying that she will be able to hang out with Princess Bubblegum "forever". She also said the learned how to be more empathetic to others too. Yet, it is still unknown if she got over her emptiness in the end

Appearance

Marceline has light blue-gray skin, crooked fangs, and long, midnight black hair that reaches to her feet. She also sports two marks on her neck, which are the marks of the bite that turned her into a vampire.

Despite being over a thousand years old, her appearance and personality is that of a 18 to 20 year old.

In the episode "Go With Me", her hair is shaved into an undercut, which reveals that she has pointy ears. She is very thin and sometimes appears to be thinner than Princess Bubblegum; however, her shape can vary slightly depending on who is drawing her. She is usually floating in the air but when she stands next to the other she is taller than they; however in "I Remember You", she was just at Ice King's size (or slightly shorter). In most of her transformations, she is shown to have green eyes.

Marceline's general appearance, particularly her blue-gray skin, fangs, and pointy ears, is an apparent result of her demonic heritage, and she shares all of these characteristics with her father.

Clothes

Her main outfit features a dark grey tank top, dark blue pants and red boots.

Marceline wears different outfits in most of her episode appearances. Her style seems to be punk rock, or grunge with colors normally red, black, grey, and other dull colors. For example, in "Henchman," she wears a dark violet strapless dress with a dull pink sash, lilac-purple stockings with dark purple stripes and pink heels. For more information, see .

Powers and abilities

Powers

Marceline has many supernatural abilities, most of which she acquired by sucking the souls of vampires she had slain. She has been shown to possess the following powers:

Soul sucking: Marceline stated the only power her demon heritage granted her was the ability to suck souls, like her father. This allowed her to gain the specific abilities of vampires she had killed. She can also suck out still living souls, which she demonstrated jokingly on Jake when they were hunting vampires in "Stakes".

Levitation: She has the ability to float and even to fly with careful control and rapid speed. She can even sleep while floating, as shown in "Marceline's Closet". She obtained this power from The Fool.

Pyrokinesis: She can light fire with only her mind, as seen in "Evicted!" when she lit up all the candles in the tree-house.

Telekinesis: She can move things using her mind, as shown in "Evicted!" and "Daddy's Little Monster". She probably obtained this power from Vampire King.

Invisibility: She can turn invisible, as seen in "Heat Signature", "Bad Little Boy", "Red Starved", and "Princess Day". She obtained this power from The Empress.

Necromancy: She can raise spooky scary skeletons, as seen in "Henchman".

Rapid healing: She appears to heal quickly from injuries, at least damage from sunlight, as shown once she was returned to the shade in "Henchman". Also in "What was Missing" she was exposed to the sunlight in this episode, she quickly retreated and the wounds healed. She obtained this power from The Moon.

Shape-shifting: She has the ability to shape-shift into numerous monstrous forms, including a bat, a wolf, a reptilian creature, and a large tentacled monster. She obtained this power from The Heirophant.

Eating shades of red: Unlike traditional vampires, Marceline is capable of sustaining herself on "shades of red," such as the color in strawberries, rather than being limited to surviving on blood. She has claimed in her first appearance in "Evicted!" to "sometimes" consume blood, but this was not proved or referenced again until "Red Starved", in which she consumed the pink blood of Princess Bubblegum(who quickly revived herself with the Spoon of Prosperity). According to the note she left on her door in "Marceline's Closet", she gets lucid dreams when she eats tomatoes.

The Nightosphere Amulet: When worn she gains the ability to shoot green lasers which either vaporize or transform whatever they hit. She can also create or transform into a large cloud of blood mist with the ability to shoot green lasers.

Communication with absorbed beings: As a result of absorbing the Vampire King's dark cloud half, she can now communicate with a miniature mental projection of the Vampire King.

StylishMagic Clothing: Whenever she shape-shifts into a larger form, her clothes either grow with her, or are torn apart explosively. At times she appears to be able to preserve her clothing, even after changing into large forms that would cause it to break: in many appearances, the clothing disappears until she returns to her humanoid form, whereas in "Sky Witch", she performs numerous transformations while still wearing her outfit. In either case, her duds always reappear when she reverts to her normal form.

Abilities

Bass player: She is an expert bass player.

Singer: She is a proficient singer.

Basketball player: She can play basketball and perform a slam dunk without floating.

Warrioress: Marceline is a mighty fighter, able to use all of her abilities strategically to great affect. She is certainly one of the most formidable beings currently on Ooo.

Weaknesses

Marceline is very vulnerable to sunlight, as is common in vampire lore, she does not dissolve right away however. The nuance to this in the Adventure Time world is that vampires are vulnerable specifically to direct sunlight. Marceline is capable of unrestricted movement on a bright sunny day provided that she shields herself sufficiently, which she usually accomplishes with a combination of a parasol and a large sunhat, sometimes with the addition of full-length gloves to cover her arms. According to Marceline, moving around on a bright day still hurts mildly, comparable to scraping her knee, but she can bear it.

Exposure to direct sunlight will cause Marceline to painfully melt into a pile of goo, though if she retreats into cover she can heal back to normal within moments. It is not clear if prolonged exposure to direct sunlight will eventually kill Marceline outright. This could be explained by her being a half-demon turned into a vampire, giving her resistance which a human-turned-vampire would lack. What type of demon her father is is still unknown.

Also like typical vampires, Marceline cannot see her own reflection in a mirror. In "Heat Signature", Marceline explains to Finn and Jake that vampires cannot defeat ghosts: "It's like a rock-paper-scissors thing". It is unknown if Marceline is negatively affected by garlic because her only known exposure to it happened when Jake pelted her in the head with large cloves of it, so the pain she experienced may have come from the impact and not the exposure. It is also unknown if Marceline can be slain with a wooden stake since she hid when Jake attempted to do so, although a wooden stake to the heart would kill just about anything. In "Princess Day", she reveals that she cannot digest syrup.

Music and instruments

Marceline is a very talented musician and songwriter, and is proficient at singing and playing her basses. Because she is ambidextrous like Finn, she is capable of playing her basses with either hand, and may even be able to employ double handed tapping which would allow her to combine simple rhythm progressions with lead parts. As seen in "It Came from the Nightosphere," Marceline is familiar with the production of chords, which is a technique not normally employed by bass players.

Marceline has three bass guitars, one seen in "Evicted!" a Butterfly Bass seen in "Heat Signature," and her Axe-bass in "Henchman" and "It Came from the Nightosphere." She seems to be most attached to and protective of her Axe-bass. The Axe-bass is supposedly a family heirloom as mentioned by her father in "It Came from the Nightosphere," and it was originally a weapon before Marceline modified it. It is shown in "Daddy's Little Monster" that she also plays and has a banjolele, or banjo ukelele. Though she has amplifiers, she doesn't usually need to plug her instruments into them.

In "Five More Short Graybles," Marceline is in search of a music shop selling a guitar known to play the 'most savory licks in Ooo.' Whether or not she bought the instrument is uncertain, but she was shown playing it before the scene panned.

Relationships

Finn

Though they were initially enemies, Finn and Marceline soon befriend one another. Marceline acts as a bully in her debut episode "Evicted!," she is impressed by Finn's brave aggression and defiance and chooses to kiss him on the lips after they fight. Both Marceline and Finn share the same spark for adventure and love of danger and excitement. Marceline is very good friends with Finn and seems to trust him and be very comfortable with him.

One of the reasons Finn and Marceline befriend each other is that Finn saved Marceline's life in "Henchman" when Jake exposed her to the sunlight and threw garlic at her in a misguided attempt to help his friend Finn. However, though they are now friends, Marceline still seems to care about her Axe-Bass more than him, as seen in "It Came from the Nightosphere." In "Go With Me," Marceline makes it clear she does not want to date Finn, but Finn explains that he did want to date her. They go to the movies together, as girlfriend and boyfriend. Recently, Marceline has expressed that she does indeed care for Finn's well being. This is exemplified in "Heat Signature," where she becomes more protective of Finn when her ghost friends prank him and Jake too far on what started to be a harmless "vampire initiation."

It is revealed in "Marceline's Closet" that Marceline sometimes still hides out in Finn and Jake's Tree Fort. In the same episode, Finn sees Marceline naked as she is about to take a shower, resulting in Finn being very flustered.

In the episode "Daddy's Little Monster" Marceline's father states that he thinks that her friends, meaning Finn and Jake, are ok. After she finds this out she jests to Finn that she does want to hang out with him more.

Jake

An avid trickster, Marceline cannot avoid scaring Jake when their two paths meet. Seeing his completely rational fear of vampires, Marceline often teases Jake and intentionally horrifies him when the chance is given. This perpetual bullying comes back to haunt Marceline, however, when Jake refuses to believe in her generally wholesome ways and almost fatally wounds her in "Henchman." Since then the two have seemed to intentionally avoid one another: Jake hides in Finn's pocket when he's with Marceline in "It Came From the Nightosphere." However, later in season two, Jake gets over his fear, and he is often seen hanging out with Finn and Marceline as friends. He might even be fully considered a friend as evidenced in the beginning of "Memory of a Memory," when after the Rag Wizard (Ash in disguise) informs Finn and Jake that Marceline is the one in trouble, he begins running faster, and later in the episode, when they run into the young Marceline and she asks who they are, Finn says "We're Finn and Jake!" then Jake says "We're your friends. "Also, in "Go With Me," he called her "babe." It is still notable, however, that Jake still holds some level of fear for Marceline, as seen on "Marceline's Closet," where he was noticeably scared of what she would do to them upon the realization that he and Finn broke into her house and hid in her closet.

Hunson Abadeer

Marceline holds a grudge against her father because he ate her fries, as described in Marceline's Fry song. She also said that she didn't think that her father cared about her or loved her, which was probably more hurtful than the fry stealing. (This was made more explicit in Rebecca Sugar's original draft of the song, widely available on the Internet.) When he steals her Axe-Bass, her hatred of him grows. After learning how she really feels through her song, Marceline's father tells her he loves her, and she says she loves him too. They appear to have reconciled for the time being. However, she still prefers that her father remains in his prison in the Nightosphere, because it is too "emotionally exhausting" when he is around. They have a classic teenage-daughter-to-father relationship. In "Daddy's Little Monster," on Jake's video phone, Marceline asks Finn and Jake if they want to party in theNightosphere. Finn is reluctant because he still thinks her father is crazy, but she assures that he is "cool," perhaps meaning that they are on better terms. Later in the episode after Finn and Jake free Marceline from the Nightosphere amulet's control, she is shocked that her dad fooled her into wearing it. Marceline's father confesses that he only wanted to be proud of her, and Marceline tells her dad that she wants him to be proud of her as she is. He says he is proud of her, and smiles, so they may have worked out their issues. In I Remember You in a flashback, she can be heard saying "Daddy? Daddy where are you?!". This for some reason her father wasn't with her after the apocalypse.

Schwabl

Marceline has a pet zombie poodle named Schwabl. Seen briefly in her house in the episode "It Came from the Nightosphere," Schwabl was lying in the living room when Finn and Marceline were doing a song. It walked up and went to another room once Finn started beat-boxing. Pendleton Ward has confirmed that Schwabl was based on his friend Marie's dog Schwabble.Schwabble is a white male poodle that has recently passed away, and is seen on the show as Marceline's dog that roams around her house. There is a small dog door for it in the kitchen.

In "Marceline's Closet," there is a doggy door in the front that Jake uses to get into Marceline's house while Finn and Jake were playing Cloud Hunt.

Princess Bubblegum

According to the original series pitch document, Marceline and Princess Bubblegum have a "friendly rivalry." Princess Bubblegum shows discomfort around Marceline and appears to disapprove of her creepy ways, while Marceline simply responds to this disapproval with mock affability, even teasing her with Bubblegum's first name of "Bonnibel" and inability to show someone a good time, like her, which causes even more dissaproval from

Princess Bubblegum. Marceline and Princess Bubblegum arguing in "What was Missing" The two can clash easily, as seen in "What Was Missing," when Marceline sang "I'm Just Your Problem" directed towards Princess Bubblegum, and spat on her jacket in the midst of a heated and highly emotional argument, making her storm off. In the same episode, it is revealed that Princess Bubblegum's stolen item is a t-shirt Marceline gave to her some time ago. The princess says she sleeps in the shirt as pajamas, causing Marceline to blush, something she only does when feeling very emotional, which is visible in a few episodes.

It was later revealed in the episode "Stakes of Gum" that Princess Bubblegum and Marceline do have feelings for each other. Bonnibel came to watch Marceline's concert because she loves her music, Marceline invited her backstage. When Marceline sung an extended version of I'm Just Your Problem and Oh, Bubblegum, Bonnibel realised that Marceline also had feelings for her and they started a secret relationship. In "Couple Night" they finally revealed their relationship to the others, in "Garlic and Peanut Butter" Marceline took the step to introduce Bonnibel to her father. Hunson eventually approved and they could be open about their relation.

Ash

Ash is Marceline's ex-boyfriend. They lived in Finn and Jake's Tree Fort together before they moved in. Ash performed spells to impress Marceline and called her "Mar-Mar." Eventually Ash sold Hambo, a teddy bear, Marceline's beloved childhood toy, resulting in her becoming enraged and dumping him. In "Memory of a Memory," Ash poses as the Rag Wizard and pretends Marceline is under a sleep spell in order to trick Finn and Jake into removing the memory of the breakup. She then falls back in love with him, but once Finn shows and explains the situation, she becomes enraged again and kicks Ash in the groin, followed by a heavy pummeling by her and Finn, and later Jake. He does not respect her at all, as he only wants to use her to make him dinner and do other chores. They seem to share a punk-like style.

BMO

It seems that Marceline and BMO have a fairly friendly relationship, she is seen playing it in "Evicted!" and comments on how she thinks it's cute. Also in the episode "What Was Missing" Marceline assists BMO and proceeds to call it "baby."

Ice King

Marceline and the Ice King were close friends during the aftermath of the Mushroom War when he was still Simon Petrikov and he was the one who originally gave her Hambo. Marceline remembers her past connection with Simon, but the Ice King does not. Despite this though, he is compelled to visit Marceline on occasion, even though she told him not to. Before the crown wiped his memory, he cared for Marceline for a time and wrote her a note about their friendship while apologizing for leaving her and explaining why he has to, which she eventually gets to read. Though Marceline discourages the Ice King from constantly coming to her house, she does not immediately force him out of her house even when Finn and Jake arrive to take him away. She admits to liking the Ice King, but as an old father-figure of sorts (she stops the Ice King from kissing her when he mistakes it for flirting). She's also visibly distraught when she sees that he doesn't remember the meaning of the messages he left for her before his transformation into the Ice King, as she doesn't know how she can help him.

In the Farmworld universe, Simon stops him by using his powers to stop his bomb from hitting Earth, but is killed in the process when he was crushed by the nose of the bomb. Distraught by this act of bravery, Marceline protects his dead body for the next thousand years, even avoiding becoming a vampire just to protect him and, more importantly, the ice crown.

Marsha

It is the only person who showed real crushed toward it and a lot of emotions, even though it enjoys inconvenience and also the irony of it, but the feelings were will to transform his body into the body of a devil just to be with her (though Finn prevent it) and then disappeared, his feelings towards her and then his feelings turned out to be kind of hate it, but only to hide his feelings.

Gene

Marceline and Gene share a long past together. After Marceline was reunited with her father, after she traveled some time with Simon, she became a teen and met Gene. The two began a relationship together although it didn't last very long. Gene tried to help Marceline with her father problem although it didn't work, but did help her compose the "Daddy" song. It later was revealed in "Only Three Wishes" that Grand Master Wizard had forbidden their love and seperated Gene from Marceline. In the present day Marceline doesn't want to talk about their past relationship with Gene and forbids him to speak of it too. They however went on a date in "Couple Night" although Marceline did this to keep her relationship with Bonnibel a secret. Their past was revealed much more, and they had sex one time.

Etymology

MK vs AT

Signature Moves

Invisablity: Marceline turns invisable and can preform combo's without the opponent knowing the exact location.

Death from Behind: Marceline summons a skeleton from the ground behind the opponent that then scratches the opponent.

Bat Dash: Marceline transforms into a small bat and flies into the opponent.

Wolf Jump: Marceline turns into a wolf and jumps on the opponent and scratches them.

Fierce Bass: Marceline swings down on the ground with her Axe Bass while enchanted with fire.

X-Ray - Vamp Bite: Marceline bites very deep in the neck causing the cervical vertebrae to break followed by a claw going into the opponents head making the skull break.

Adventuralities

Like a Vampire: Marceline flies to the opponents, bites in their neck and sucks all the blood out, until a dried out body remains and the floor. Marceline then wipes some blood off her mouth.

Giant Bat: Marceline transforms into her giant bat form, she grabs the opponent and bites them apart. She throws the two body parts afterwards into her mouth and chews on it. Afterwards the transforms back.

Babality: she transforms into a younger version ("Simon & Marcy") and hugs Hambo.

Special Skins

Sunlight Overall: the outfit Marceline wore in the episode "What Was Missing".

Marshall Lee (DLC): genderswapped version of Marceline.

Adventure Time: OOO Raceways

Marceline is the 1st unlockable character, as well as one of the fastest racers. Her ability, Homin-skeleton army, can send out multiple tracking skele-vehicles.

MUGEN

Marceline is a playable character in MUGEN. She is part of the adventure time pack.

Special Attacks

Song Sounds - Marceline will play a strum of music on her axe bass and the sound of it will be very loud and strong so it will hurt the oppoment with it's epicness.

Giant Bat - Marceline will transorm into her giant bat form and swing her claws.

Skeleton Zombies - Marceline will make a league of skeleton zombies rise from the ground.

Soul Suck - Marceline sucks the souls out to the opponent and they turn pale and white and motionless for a few seconds before she spits them back into them.

Assists

Hudson Abadeer - A Portal to the Nightosphere opens up and Hudson Abadder comes out and blasts some evil onto the opponent.

Costumes

Sun Hat

Marshall Lee

Quotes

Sometimes I do [drink blood], but it's not the blood that I like. It's the color.